Method of making boots and shoes



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%W.SMMLMD' METHOD OF MAKING BOOTS AND SHOES Filed Oct. 12, 1925 v erably formed in the outside wall of the last .thus providing perfect balance for the v supporting structure, as explained in my said prior patent.

Therefore in carrying out the preferred method, I assemble the upper materials and insole on the special form of last, beat in the insole at the position illustrated substantially at 25. Then I supply therein the arch supporting member 30. This may be of any desired material, stiffness, flexibility or extent, such as felt, or other yieldable, compressible material, but preferably is to substantially fill the recess in the last, as for example, as seen in my said copending application, and is 'for the important purpose of supporting the inside ball of the bottom of the foot, at the sesamoid bone and the first metatarsal phalangeal joint. This is one of the im 'ortant features of my development in t e improvement of corrective and correct shoe' structure giving to the shoe a transverse arch supporting effect directly at the shank portion of the ball of the foot, thus allowing more spring in the arch, moresup port-to the shoe and giving greater freedom of movement to the forepart and toes of the foot. This arch supporting feature, in combination with the accentuated fullness, prefand hence in the shoe, as well asthe raised sole structure and supporting feature on the inside, from the ball of the foot substantially to the rearmost portion of the heel, or at least to the lower part of the heel seat, where the oscalcis fits in,. gives a greater cupped heel seat than has heretofore been employed, as well as a firmer foot supporting wall structure, particularly on the inner arch of the .foot, which latter feature is maintained by the wedge 10. The extra fullness on the outer line is indicated at 33, Fig. 2, specially to accommodate the cuboid bplne,

s 0e, and preventing distortion from wear, and I believe that'I am the first in this art of orthopedic shoe construction, to combine the advantageous features'of the fullness of the shoe at 33, the transverse arch supportin'g structure at the inside ball of the foot, and

- the providingpf the arch support between the insole and the outsole in the specially formed and predetermined contour made in the last. All these features also in combination with the supporting wedge structure, give added novelty, but I consider the shoe construction with the supporting wedge as fundamentally new.

My invention is furtherdescribed and defined in the form of claims as follows:

1. The improved method of making boots and shoes, which consists in providing a last with a disalined portion at the heel breast to provide for raising the outsole at said disalined position in the completed shoe, assemblin'g upper and insole materials on a-last, lasting the shoe, applying the outsole, beating the outsole in said disalined portion at the inner shank part adjacent the heel breast from a normal horizontal position, applying a corrective wedge member from the heel breast portion rearwardly and centrally of the heel seat to offset said disalined outsole, said wedge member being of greatest thickness at the heel breast and where exposed at the forwardpart of the heel, tapering rearwardly and centrally of the heel seat, and thereupon applying the heel and finishing the shoe in the usual manner.

2. The improved process of makin'g boots and shoes, which consists in first providing a last with a disalined recess at one side in the bottom portion at the rear of the ball of the shoe, said last having a lifted heel seat surface at said disalined side and greater fullness in its outer curve, assembling shoe upper materials and an insole on said last, beating the insole into the said recess, applying arch supporting material to the insole Where beaten into the said last recess, securing the outsole, supplying a corrective wedge member from the heel breast portion rearwardly and centrally of the'heel seat, said corrective wedge member being substantially rectangular in form, and having its point of greatest thickness at the heel breast where the wedge is exposed, securing the heel and finishing the shoe.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.

WILLIAM SAKLAD. 

